I never cared for spreader bars. They look clunky to me and I like my ladies with wrists bound together, and ankles bound together. The opposite of a spreader bar.

This is part of why I usually prefer rope to shackles. Rope embraces a lady much closer than shackles. And while shackles do have a nice inescape-ability, they often leave a lady with too much mobility, an in the recently reposted Sophia in the Attic photoset, where she looked like she could have just walked out the front door and left if she felt like it. I much prefer the shackles Sophia wore in a photoset whose file is marked bedroomeveningmetal where she wears shackles that hold her wrists ankles together about as close a rope would. Loose shackles are good for marching a prisoner from one place of captivity to another or for public display.

On the topic of too much mobility, I think it detracts from a photoset/video has a model whose hands are tied in front of her in a way that makes it easy for her too remove her gag and then use her teeth to free her hands. Hands bound in front is fine if they are attached to the knees or ankles, or if the arms are secured to the torso in a way that prevents the damsel from reaching her mouth with her hands and vice versa. This is a considerably more minor point than feet that remain obscured by shoes or nylons.

As for the torture issue I touched on this a little bit in my “Credo” I mistakenly posted in the suggestions forum. Despite an absolute preference for happy captives in the real world. I do enjoy a good damsel in distress scenario. For me the dividing line is that the damsel be distressed about her confinement, and her helplessness, and what might become of her, or even a bit uncomfortable in her captivity (Like Paige and Ariel in the Morocco video), but not in real pain, suffering visible injuries, or terrified out of her mind. Just where this boundary between sexy damsel in distress and too much distress is varies from person to person and situation to situation. A bit like how a submissive finds degrees of restraint arousing up to a point, past which the restraint becomes uncomfortable in a bad way or even painful.

If you’re reading this Hywel, keep doing what you’re doing, no one creation of yours can satisfy everyone’s tastes at once. So take notice of what little things your fans post that strike your imagination, or if there’s something that absolutely everyone likes or dislikes. But don’t drive yourself crazy trying to include or exclude everything everyone wants at once.

And although some of your creations are so dead one perfect they make me wonder if you’ve been reading my mind, not everything your create has to dead on perfect to be interesting and worthwhile. Have fun and experiment, we wouldn’t be here if your vision was not similar to ours. And of course, we want more of the same, but better, but not too similar as to be repetitive.